The advertisement was for Goldfields Toyota in Kalgoorlie, West Australia, and was published by the local newspaper, the Kalgoorlie Miner, about three weeks ago.

Goldfields Toyota general sales manager, Darryl “Shack” Evans, told News Corp Australia: “It wasn’t meant to offend. We try to make our ads a little bit interesting and a little bit lighthearted but we blurred the lines of good taste and bad on this occasion. It was only printed once, but it’s somehow got on social media after someone took a photo of it, even though we’d taken it off the website.”

The dealership has form trying to write engaging advertisements for its second-hand vehicles.

An advertisement for another used Toyota HiLux plays on the name of the model called the Workmate. “I’ve worked with a few unreliable workmates before, hi Brett, but this one won’t let you down”.

An advertisement for a Toyota Prado 4WD claims the vehicle will “cover more ground than the Mars Rover”.

Toyota Australia says it contacted the dealer as soon as it became aware of the ad last Friday and asked for the advertisement to be removed online, but by then the ad had appeared on social media.

CLP cabinet minister John Elferink charged taxpayers more than $45,000 for a ‘study trip’ to the United States over the Christmas holidays, including visits to Cape Canaveral Space Base and Universal Studios.